Reviving a Club?

ivychan
Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:36:04 +0000

Since it’s the start of a new school year, just do more publicity!

At our school, our french club was virtually dead (there were only seniors running it the years before, so when they left there was no one there, and the sponsor wasn’t even vaguely interested in publicizing it). I didn’t revive the club, but my close friend did.

His tactic was to go around to people who are CLOSE to him and whom he knows he could TRUST, and hand them positions (I was made the treasurer and food-culture advisor), and call an “officer meeting”. This way, you’ll have a small pack of people who won’t dare to leave. Also, he asked the club sponsor to tell her students about the club. Automatically some joined just to get on her good side.

By that time, the club had 8 people (for me, that’s not too bad). So with those people, we planned a few school-wide events and claimed CLEARLY that we were the sponsors. Some other kids joined just out of curiousity.

And then we made a BAZILLION posters and annoucements to induce people to come. Eventually they started showing up.

Also, we made a rule that whoever wants to run for an officer position had to bring two new people who were going to stay in the club. A lot of people (surprisingly) wanted positions, so we had quite a big club.

French club is now 27 people! =D It went up from 1 interested person to one of the biggest organizations in my school~